Appendix Bxml To Ui; Layout Tag Summary For Xml To Ui Dialog Boxes - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 come with several
extensibility features including Behaviors, Commands (JavaScript API), Effects, and Tools. With
these features, advanced users can extend or automate the authoring tool's functionality. The
XML to UI engine works with each of these extensibility features to create dialog boxes that the
user sees if the extension either requires or accepts parameters.
XML to UI uses a subset of the XML User Interface Language (XUL), along with some tags
created for Flash. These tags define a dialog box exclusively with XML. The XML to UI rendering
engine parses the XML and generates a modal dialog box. Modal dialog boxes, unlike modeless
dialog boxes, must be dismissed (either accepted or cancelled) before the application can continue
operation.
When used with Behaviors, the XML tags that define the dialog box reside in the same XML file
in which the behavior is defined. For Effects, Tools, and the JavaScript API, the XML tags must
be placed in a separate XML file.

Layout tag summary for XML to UI dialog boxes

The following tags are used for dialog box layout:
Tag
<column>
<columns>
<dialog>
<grid>
<hbox>
<row>
<rows>
<separator>
Description
Creates one column in a tabular grid layout.
Creates a container tag for the <column> tags in a tabular grid layout.
Creates the container tag for the entire dialog box.
Creates a container for tabular layout using <rows> and <columns>.
Creates a container for items laid out horizontally.
Creates one row in a tabular grid layout
reates a container tag for the
C
Creates a separator bar that displays vertically in an <hbox> and horizontally in a
<vbox>.
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tags in a tabular grid layout.
<row>
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